Electrical connector with single grounding bars for suppressing grounding resonance
View Patent ↗An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing loaded with a row of terminals arranged along a lateral direction; and the row of terminals at least comprising plural grounding terminals and a respective pair of differential signal terminals between every two adjacent grounding terminals, wherein selected two adjacent grounding terminals are bridged with a single grounding bar and constructed as a coupling grounding pair, while every adjacent coupling grounding pair are separated from each other.
1 . An electrical connector comprising:
an insulative housing loaded with a row of terminals arranged along a lateral direction; and
the row of terminals comprising a plurality of grounding terminals and a respective pair of differential signal terminals between every two adjacent grounding terminals along the lateral direction, the plurality of grounding terminals comprising a middle grounding terminal between two pairs of differential signal terminals and a first side grounding terminal and a second side grounding terminal at two opposite sides of a corresponding middle grounding terminal;
wherein electromagnetic waves reflecting points between the middle grounding terminal and the first side grounding terminal are asymmetrical from electromagnetic waves reflecting points between the middle grounding terminal and the second side grounding terminal to destroy a resonance condition of the grounding terminals and suppress corresponding ground resonance; and
wherein the middle grounding terminal and the first side grounding terminal are bridged with a first single grounding bar, the middle grounding terminal and the second side grounding terminal are bridged with a second single grounding bar, and the first and the second single grounding bars are offset in the lateral direction.
2 . The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the middle grounding terminal and the first side grounding terminal are bridged with a single grounding bar while the middle grounding terminal and the second side grounding terminal are separated from each other with no grounding bar.
3 . The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a common grounding bar connecting with all the grounding terminals.
4 . An electrical connector comprising:
an insulative housing loaded with a row of terminals arranged along a lateral direction; and
the row of terminals at least comprising a plurality of grounding terminals and a respective pair of differential signal terminals between every two adjacent grounding terminals; and
a common grounding bar connecting with all the grounding terminals;
wherein selected two adjacent grounding terminals are bridged with a single grounding bar and constructed as a coupling grounding pair, while every adjacent coupling grounding pairs are separated from each other.
5 . The electrical connector as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the common grounding bar is unitary with respective front ends of the grounding terminals, and the single grounding bars are attach with corresponding grounding terminals.
6 . The electrical connector as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the single grounding bars are unitarily connected with respective front ends of the grounding terminals, and no common grounding bar is provided to connect with the grounding terminals.
7 . An electrical connector comprising:
an insulative housing loaded with a row of terminals arranged along a lateral direction; and
the row of terminals comprising a plurality of grounding terminals and a respective pair of differential signal terminals between every two adjacent grounding terminals;
wherein selected two adjacent grounding terminals are bridged with a first single grounding bar and constructed as a coupling grounding pair, while two adjacent grounding terminals of every two adjacent coupling grounding pairs are bridged with a second single grounding bar but not any other grounding bar, and the first single grounding bar is located closer to front ends of the grounding terminals than the second single grounding bar is.
8 . The electrical connector as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the single first grounding bars are located aligned with each other along the lateral direction, and the second single grounding bars are located aligned with each other along the lateral direction.